14 Best Computer Tricks
If there's one thing that comes up with clever tricks, especially on computers, and those can be for PCs, Macs, web browsers or specific sites like You Tube, programs like Excel and etc., And what they all had in common was that using them makes your computer life a whole lot easier and more fun.
We looked through some (14) tricks
and ranked the best, which are the mixture of useful
and mischievous. Here they are:
1.
Get
back the tab, you accidently closed:
If
you want to get back a tab you closed, just press "Control" (or
"Command" on Mac), plus "Shift," plus "T," and it
will be magically re-appeared.
2.
Only screenshot the part of the screen that you want:
If
you only need to screenshot part of the screen, there's a simple way to do it
for both Windows and Macs.
For
Windows: Just go to "Start" and then "Snipping Tool."
For
Mac: "Command," plus "Shift," plus "4" brings up
the tool. Then you just drag the area you want.
3.
Easily repeat your last command in Excel:
If
you press F4 button in Excel, it repeats the last command.
Example:
"If you select a cell and highlight it yellow, you can then
highlight any other selected cell(s) yellow by pressing F4."
4.
Open a link in a new browser tab with one click:
If
you click the "middle" button on your mouse, you will open the link
in a new browser tab. And if you middle-click an open tab, it will close it.
5.
Make a copy of a file by just dragging it:
All
you have to do to make a copy of a file on a Mac is hold the "Alt"
key ("Control" if you are using a PC) and then click and drag the
file. This will make a copy that you can drop anywhere you want by un-clicking.
6.
Reverse search an image in Chrome:
In
Google Chrome, if you press "S" while you right click on an image it
will do a reverse Google search. That means you'll be able to see where that
photo is and where it potentially originated.
7.
Pause YouTube with one click, or skip backward and
forward 10 seconds:
Most
people know you can hit the space bar to pause a YouTube video, but sometimes
this causes it to scroll down the page if you haven't already clicked on the
video. If you press "K," this will play (or pause) the video every
time.
Hitting
the "J" key will cause you to go backward 10 seconds, while
hitting the "L" key will make you go forward 10 seconds.
8.
Move your window to any side of the screen, or to the
next monitor:
If
you click the "Windows" key, plus one of the arrows (right, left, up,
down), your current window will move to that side of the screen.
Similarly,
"Windows," plus "Shift," plus one of the arrows will move
your window into whatever monitor is that way (right, for example).
Unfortunately,
this only works for Windows machines.
9.
Clear the cache in seconds:
Quickly
clear your cache by pressing "Control," plus "Shift," plus
"R." This will also refresh your page.
10.
Lock your computer in seconds:
On
a Windows machine, hit "Windows," plus "L" to lock
your computer. This can be fun for pranks.
On
a Mac click "Command," plus "Option," plus
"Eject." (Or "Power" if your computer doesn't have an
optical drive.)
11.
Freak people out by rotating their screen:
If
you press "Control" plus "Alt" plus one of the arrow keys,
it will rotate your screen that way. Note: this doesn't work for all computers
(and only on Windows), but when it does, it can seriously freak someone out.
12.
Turn your browser window into a simple text editor:
If
you want to bring up a basic text editor you can type in, just paste this into
the address bar in your browser:
data:text/html,
<title>Text Editor</title><body contenteditable
style="font-size:2rem;font-family:georgia;line-height:1.4;max-width:60rem;margin:0
auto;padding:4rem;">
13.
Edit what you Chrome browser looks like:
If
you want to play a trick on someone, and send them a fake screenshot of
something that never existed, there's an easy way in Chrome.
First you bring up
the console by pressing "F12."
Then
you enter: document.designMode = "on"
After
this, you can edit any of the text that appears on the screen.
14.
Reset your browser so it's not zoomed in:
Here
are three ways to deal with zooming in your web browser:
"Control" (or
"Command" on Mac) plus "+" zooms in
"Control" (or
"Command" on Mac) plus "-" zooms out
"Control" (or "Command" on Mac) plus "0" resets it to default
